1. Create Animations

Whether you want to make a mini stop-motion animation or just make a slideshow of related pictures, Photos can help. Select the Animation button under the Assistant tab, and you can choose from 2–50 photos to add. Once you’re satisfied, click Create and you’ll have a neat little GIF ready to share.

You can crop your photos, too. Try manually making adjustments or select one of the preset aspect ratios to make it easier — the Flip to Portrait option is perfect for making a phone wallpaper. If something got flipped, rotating it here only takes a click.

4. Watch a Slideshow

Want to watch all your photos go by? You can start a slideshow from any folder in Google Photos. Click on a picture to open it up, then click the three-dot menu in the upper-right corner. Choose Slideshow and your photos will start rolling by. This is perfect for turning your PC into a quick digital photo frame, maybe for guests at a party.

6. Free Up Device Space

Since Google Photos automatically backs up your pictures to its servers, having them on your device is a space-wasting duplicate. You might choose to keep a few special photos on your phone in case you’re in an area without service, but Photos can clean up the rest in seconds.

7. Disable Suggested Edits

Google Photos tries to help you out with its Assistant. It’ll automatically create albums when you take lots of pictures in a short time or show “recommended” filters on some photos. If these annoy you, they’re easy to turn off.

Open the left slide-out menu and tap Settings. Expand the Assistant Cards field and you’ll see a couple of options:

Creations automatically makes collages and animations.

Rediscover this day shows you notable photos from years past.

Suggested shares recommends that you share photos based on certain criteria.

Suggested rotations will fix misaligned photos.

You should leave these on until you know that you don’t want them, as they are helpful at times.

8. Search for Anything

Behind the scenes, Google Photos does some interesting work on your pictures. Type anything into the search bar at the top to find photos related to that term. Searching for food will find pictures you’ve taken of your dinner, or Paris will find all the pictures you took on your vacation last year.

You can pair in the opposite direction, too. Open Google Drive, click the gear in the top-right, and choose Settings. Under General, check the box to Automatically put your Google Photos into a folder in My Drive. This adds a new folder at your Drive’s root called Google Photos for easy access.

Open the left sidebar and tap Settings. Choose Back up & sync and tap Back up device folders. This lets you see all the folders on your phone that contain images. Turn each on or off with its slider depending on your preference. Whenever Photos detects a new folder, it will ask you via a notification if you’d like it backed up.

12. Share Any Photo With Anyone

What’s the fun of photos if you’re the only one who sees them? Google Photos makes it simple to send out your pics to friends even if they don’t use the app. Open any photo and click the Share icon to get a list of options. You can send them directly to Facebook, Twitter, or Google+, but you also have the option to create a shared album.

Once you share, you can decide whether others can add photos to the album. For a quicker method, just click Get Link for a URL you can send to anyone. It’s much faster than manually attaching it to a text or message.

How Do You Use Photos?

These are 12 little features you might have missed inside Google Photos — who’d have thought this service had so much to offer? If you’re only using Photos as a quick backup for your phone, you’re missing out! Try out these extras and you might just find your new favorite photo service.

Yes, one Google account gets you 15 GB of space to share across Gmail, Drive, and Photos. But remember that if you use Photos on your phone, its auto-upload feature can save an unlimited amount of pictures at high quality. So those don't count towards your space.

According to this Google Groups post, adding that Google Photos folder to your Drive does not use additional space. But you shouldn't move anything into it directly either -- let Photos sync them for you.

My apology, my original question was not properly post. What i wish is to be able to create movie in PC's 'Google Photo'. Right now I only able to create movie from Phone (small screen, difficult to organize the images sequence). The 'Movie' selction icon is not in 'Assistant' of PC site.
Or i missing something?

Ben is a Deputy Editor and the Sponsored Post Manager at MakeUseOf. He holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Grove City College, where he graduated Cum Laude and with Honors in his major. He enjoys helping others and is passionate about video games as a medium.